John Battelle's Searchblog
JANUARY 11, 2016
The post FaceSense: Sometimes (OK, A Lot of Times) Your Predictions Are A Tad Early appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. Way back in 2012 – four years ago in real time, three decades or so in Internet time – I predicted that Facebook would build an alternative to Google’s AdSense based on its extraordinary data set. I was right, but…off by a few years.
Hunton Privacy
JANUARY 6, 2016
On December 27, 2015, the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress of the People’s Republic of China published the P.R.C. Anti-Terrorism Law. The law was enacted in response to a perceived growing threat from extremists and terrorists, particularly in regions in Western China, and came into effect on January 1, 2016. As its name suggests, the main goal of the law is to strengthen national security and to prevent terrorism.
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Elie
JANUARY 12, 2016
This post looks at how an attacker can intercept and read emails sent from one email provider to another by performing a DNS MX record hijacking attack. While our research on the state of email delivery security indicates that this attack is less pervasive than the TLS downgrade attack discussed in a previous post, it is equally effective at defeating email in-transit encryption.
CGI
JANUARY 28, 2016
How ‘smart’ is your smart working strategy? ravi.kumarv@cgi.com. Thu, 01/28/2016 - 07:02. When I talk with friends, family and my clients about the current people challenges in business, there’s often a lot of interest and hot debate about ‘ Smart’ Working …indeed when I joined CGI, one of the things that attracted me as a prospective employee was the company’s philosophy on being outcome focused, providing opportunities to work flexibly and a commitment to employee wellbeing and the work-life b
Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage
Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.
Roger's Information Security
JANUARY 27, 2016
This week Tenable released a new “plugin” (what they call a vulnerability detection) named “Web Server HTTP Header Information Disclosure”, plugin id 88099. In spite of even the title saying it only an information disclosure vulnerability, they rate this a medium. In my environment that means we need to address it. I think its a little crazy for an information disclosure vulnerability to be rated that high.
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John Battelle's Searchblog
JANUARY 12, 2016
The post Mobile Gets a Back Button appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. I just opened an email on my phone. It was from a fellow I don’t know, inviting me to an event I’d never heard of. Intrigued, I clicked on the fellow’s LinkedIn, which was part of his email signature. That link opened the LinkedIn app on my phone. In the fellow’s LI feed was another link, this one to a tweet he had mentioned in his feed.
Hunton Privacy
JANUARY 28, 2016
According to Bloomberg BNA , Paul F. Nemitz, Director for Fundamental Rights and Union Citizenship at the Directorate-General Justice of the European Commission, said at a privacy conference that he hoped a new U.S.-EU Safe Harbor agreement would be reached by the evening of Monday, February 1, 2016. According to Nemitz, V?ra Jourová, European Commissioner for Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality Justice, will go to Parliament on Monday evening to “inform member states…of the outcome [of
Elie
JANUARY 19, 2016
This post summarizes which equipement the FBI use to seize the content of servers and laptops despite many of them use full disk encryption and which defenses exist.
CGI
JANUARY 22, 2016
New European Cyber Laws (NISD) – Do you understand the potential impact on your business? Anonymous. Fri, 01/22/2016 - 04:18. I previously blogged about the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) agreed as European legislation in December 2015. This blog focuses on the new Network and Information Security Directive (NISD) which was agreed at the same time and also has significant implications for business. table.
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Attensa
JANUARY 22, 2016
At Attensa we work with complex organizations that are solving complex problems. Effectively managing information and knowledge is a core part of the business strategies of these organizations. But often complexity begets complexity. In the universe of business and professional information services, the complexity wave has been playing out for decades as providers and their customers struggle with applying pre-digital content metaphors to a digital world.
Preservica
JANUARY 15, 2016
I am excited to announce that as the newly independent Preservica, we have just moved into our new North America office on Milk Street, in the heart of downtown Boston, MA. The move will allow us to increase our focus on serving customers right across the region - as well as of course the growing community of Preservica users in the Boston area, including the Massachusetts State Archives, the City of Boston, Emerson College and The Trustees of Reservations, to name just a few.
John Battelle's Searchblog
JANUARY 10, 2016
The post The Streaming Conundrum: Forgetting What I Heard appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. Once upon a time, I’d read the yearly lists of “best albums” from folks like Rick Webb or Marc Ruxin , and immediately head over to the iTunes store for a music-buying binge. Afterwards, I’d listen happily to my new music for days on end, forging new connections between the bands my pals had suggested and my own life experiences.
Hunton Privacy
JANUARY 11, 2016
On January 6, 2015, the Federal Trade Commission released its report on big data entitled Big Data: A Tool for Inclusion or Exclusion? Understanding the Issues. The report is a compilation of a seminar on alternative scoring products, the discussions at a big data public workshop held on September 15, 2014, and other recent research and public commentary on the issue.
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JKevinParker
JANUARY 11, 2016
At this year's AIIM Conference , I will be speaking on SharePoint planning for user adoption: Don't Make Us Think: Getting SharePoint to be Useful, Usable, and Used. SharePoint is infamous for being unuseful, unusable, and unused. But the fault is not in the technology—usually, it is a failure to adequately plan and execute practical business solutions that causes SharePoint projects to flounder.
CGI
JANUARY 19, 2016
Optimizing Healthcare Value with Prescriptive Analytics – Part 1. kathy.jacquay@…. Wed, 01/20/2016 - 01:46. The healthcare system of the future will be one where continuous improvements in patient experience and operational efficiency are informed by data and decisions that are directed by prescriptive analytics. To achieve continuous improvement and drive optimization of healthcare value, we have to shift analytics from monitoring and reporting of what has happened, to using analytics to make d
Robert's Db2
JANUARY 29, 2016
I'll state up front that I'm using the terms "history table" and "archive" table not in a generic sense, but as they have technical meaning in a DB2 for z/OS context. A history table is paired with a "base" table that has been enabled f or system-time temporal support (introduced with DB2 10 for z/OS), and an archive table goes with a base table that has been enabled for DB2-ma nage d archiving (also known as "transparent archi ving" - - a feature delivered with DB2 11).
Preservica
JANUARY 8, 2016
What a great start to 2016! After an exciting 2015, it was wonderful to read in the latest Jan/Feb issue of ARMA International’s Information Management magazine that Preservica has been awarded not just one, but two “ Best In Show ” awards for our contribution to the ARMA LIVE! conference in Washington DC at the end of last year. Preservica took the top honors for Best Product or Product Demo , and Best Industry Intelligence Session for our workshop “Will Your Vital Long-Term Digital Records Sti
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John Battelle's Searchblog
JANUARY 21, 2016
The post On Medium, Facebook, and the Graph Conflict appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. I double took upon arriving at Medium just now, fingers flexed to write about semi-private data and hotel rooms (trust me, it’s gonna be great). But upon my arrival, I was greeted thusly: Now, I have no categorical beef with Facebook, I understand the value of its network as much as the next publisher.
Hunton Privacy
JANUARY 8, 2016
On January 1, 2016, a Dutch law became effective that (1) includes a general obligation for data controllers to notify the Data Protection Authority (“DPA”) of data security breaches, and (2) authorizes the DPA to impose direct fines for violations of the Data Protection Act. Under the law, data controllers are required to immediately notify the DPA of any data security breaches that have, or are likely to have, serious adverse consequences to the protection of personal data.
Hunton Privacy
JANUARY 28, 2016
On January 28, 2016, the Senate Judiciary Committee passed the Judicial Redress Act (the “Act”), which would give EU citizens the right to sue over certain data privacy issues in the U.S. The Act passed after an amendment was approved which would condition EU citizens’ right to sue on EU Member States (1) allowing companies to transfer personal data to the U.S. for commercial purposes and (2) having personal data transfer policies which do not materially impede the national security interests of
Hunton Privacy
JANUARY 15, 2016
On December 30, 2015, Taiwan’s Office of the President issued an order to promulgate certain amendments (the “Amendments”) to Taiwan’s Personal Data Protection Law (the “PDPL”). The Amendments revise 12 articles in the PDPL. The Amendments concern the collection and use of sensitive personal data, the form of consent for the collection and use of non-sensitive personal data, and the imposition of criminal liability for violations of certain provisions of the PDPL.
Speaker: Nicholas Zeisler, CX Strategist & Fractional CXO
The first step in a successful Customer Experience endeavor (or for that matter, any business proposition) is to find out what’s wrong. If you can’t identify it, you can’t fix it! 💡 That’s where the Voice of the Customer (VoC) comes in. Today, far too many brands do VoC simply because that’s what they think they’re supposed to do; that’s what all their competitors do.
John Battelle's Searchblog
JANUARY 6, 2016
The post Dear Microsoft. I Want To Use Office 365. But… appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. Here’s what I encountered when I, as a first time ever user, was directed to a document that lived in Office 365 World: Holy crap, Microsoft! I just wanted to read the document a colleague at another (much larger, older, and traditional) company had sent me.
Hunton Privacy
JANUARY 15, 2016
On February 22, 2016, the Centre for Information Policy Leadership (“CIPL”), together with TRUSTe, the Information Accountability Foundation and Information Integrity Solutions, will co-host a workshop on Building a Dependable Framework for Privacy, Innovation and Cross-Border Data Flows in the Asia-Pacific Region in Lima, Peru. The workshop will be held in the margins of the upcoming meetings of the APEC Electronic Commerce Steering Group and its Data Privacy Subgroup in Lima from February 23-
Hunton Privacy
JANUARY 5, 2016
On December 30, 2015, the Pew Research Center released a report on the results of a recent survey that asked 461 Americans about their feelings toward sharing personal information with companies. The survey found that a “significant minority” of American adults have felt “confused over information provided in company privacy policies, discouraged by the amount of effort needed to understand the implications of sharing their data, and impatient because they wanted to learn more about the informat
Hunton Privacy
JANUARY 29, 2016
On January 28, 2016, the Centre for Information Policy Leadership (“CIPL”) held a special roundtable at Hunton & Williams’ Brussels office to examine the “essential equivalence” requirement for protection of data transfers to non-EU countries set by the Court of Justice of the European Union’s (“CJEU’s”) Schrems decision. The roundtable brought together leading lawyers, corporate privacy officers, legal experts, regulators and policymakers to discuss the critical issues and impact of t
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Hunton Privacy
JANUARY 28, 2016
On January 13, 2016, the Russian Data Protection Authority ( Roscommandzor ) released its plan for audits this year to assess compliance with Russia’s data localization law , which became effective on September 1, 2015. The localization law requires companies to store the personal data of Russians in databases located in Russia. The audit plan indicates that the Roscommandzor will audit large, multinational companies doing business in numerous jurisdictions and processing the personal data of Ru
Hunton Privacy
JANUARY 21, 2016
On January 21, 2016, a Senate Judiciary Committee vote on the Judicial Redress Act, which would give EU citizens the right to sue over certain data privacy issues in the U.S., has reportedly been postponed. As reported by Forbes, the vote may have been delayed due to amendments to the fifth paragraph of the bill, which deals with litigation pursuant to the act.
CGI
JANUARY 14, 2016
New European Cyber Laws – Do you understand potential impact on your business? ravi.kumarv@cgi.com. Thu, 01/14/2016 - 05:54. Two new pieces of European legislation/regulation were agreed in December 2015. I read a recent article in the FT, Network and Information Security Directive (NISD), also known as the Cyber Security Directive, was agreed on the 8th December, followed a week later by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR ), agreed on the 15th December.
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